Archive

  • Turkey-Syria earthquakes: insured losses pegged at around $1bn

    09 February 2023

    Fitch Ratings says economic losses could reach $4bn or more from the tragedy

  • Fitch questions if co-insurance demand will hold up in South Korea

    08 February 2023

    Arrangements transferred interest rate risks amid ultra-low environment

  • Fitch: we will watch for life insurers taking more risk under Solvency UK

    02 February 2023

    Safeguards on asset eligibility and PRA powers untested as yet, rating agency says

  • Fitch Ratings: too early to fully compare IFRS 17 results

    24 January 2023

    The rating agency said varying approaches to IFRS 17 mean insurers could report different results

  • Finding a consensus on IFRS 17 leverage ratios

    23 January 2023

    Some signs of agreement on how financial leverage will be presented under the new insurance contracts accounting standard are emerging, but options remain open, as Christopher Cundy reports

  • Hong Kong insurers reap HK$736m using Covid sales measures

    12 January 2023

    Regulator allowed remote selling as pandemic emerged

  • Hong Kong life sales expected to rebound as China reopens border

    11 January 2023

    Chinese customers represented about 30% of total HK life business before pandemic

  • The nine insurance sectors set to deteriorate in 2023

    06 January 2023

    Fitch Ratings offers an outlook for the global insurance sector

  • Chinese solvency ratios decline further in Q2

    07 December 2022

    Stricter C-Ross rules caused ratios to fall already during Q1

  • Fitch warns of deteriorating outlook for French P&C sector

    28 November 2022

    Climate change is expected to cause more severe and frequent losses in 2023